THOMAS QUARRY: 197 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Adjusting cone on crusher. He was holding the cable and finger was caught between cable & pipe

Someone in tower turned belt on and did not know he was in the area.

Employee was driving a CAT 769 Haul Truck. Reached behind the seat to see if the cooling fan in the cab was running and stuck his finger inside the guard and cut tip of middle finger on right hand. Taken to hospital and stitched up.

A flop gate (75 lbs) at the end of a conveyor had rolled up and landed on the tail pulley. Two employees raised it up to let up back in position. One employee let go of his end after the gate went over center before the other and the gate pinched the right ring finger of the second employee against the angle iron that the gate swung in.

EE was attempting to remove a rock that had become lodged under the belt in a conveyor tailpulley using his hands to roll the belt forward. The rock dropped out and belt rolled back, pinching both hands. The little finger on his left hand was broke & the tip above the first joint was badly cut. He was taken to the hospital and the little finger was stitched up.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPIN PUT PUG MILL BACK TOGETHER WAS FINE UNTIL WEST HOME THAT NIGHT AND BACK STARTED TO STIFFEN UP. LIFTING DURING DAY AND CAUSED LOWER BACK STRAIN.

72"ELJAY CONE WAS BEING ADJUSTED. EMPLOYEE WAS ON CONE PLATFORM USING A WRENCH TO LOCK IN WEDGES ON CONE AS IT'S SPACING WAS TAKEN UP. FOREMAN SAID AT TIME OF ACCIDENT NO ACTION WAS TAKING PLA CE ON CONE. THE WRENCH, ACCORDING TO EMPLOYEE, JUMPED OUT OF SLOT AND STRUCK HIS UPPER RT LEG, CAUSING A BRUISE. EMPLOYEE WAS BROUGHT TO TOWN FOR BROKEN BONE, BUT LEG WAS BRUISED & HE RETURNE

EMPLOYEES WERE WORKING ON 72" CONE BOWEL. THE EMPLOYEE WHO WAS INJURED WAS STANDING INSIDE THE BOWL HOLDING A WRENCH IN PLACE ON A NUT HEAD WHILE OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE TIGHTENING DOWN BOLT OUTSIDE THE BOWL. INJURED MAN HAD HIS HAND ON BOWL. SOCKET ON AIR WRENCH SHATTERED AND A FRAGMENT STRUCK EMPLOYEE'S HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO TAKE OFF CUTTING EDGE ON ENDLOADER. BOLTS HAD BEEN REMOVED EXCEPT FOR ONE. WHEN EMPLOYEE TOOK IT OUT, METAL FELL 2 FEET AND STRUCK HIM ON RIGHT FOOT CAUSING CONTUSION.

EMPLOYEE, THE QUARRY FOREMAN, WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM A CAT 769 HAUL TRUCK. HE SLIPPED ON THE STEPS COMING DOWN AND STRUCK RIGHT ELBOW ON GUARD RAIL AROUND THE CAB OF THE TRUCK. HE BRUISED ELB OW AND AN INFECTION GOT STARTED BY THE BONE AND SURGERY HAD TO BE DONE TO DRAIN THE INFECTION.

ROCK HUNG UP HE WAS MOVING SMALLER ROCKS TO GET LARGE ROCK ROCK ROLLED OVER UT FINGER INDEX ON R HAND STITCHES

EE WAS WELDING ON FRAMEWORK OVERHEAD. WHILE DOING SO A PIECE OF SLAG GO INSIDE SLEEVE AND BURNED HIS ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING SCREEN DECK ON SCREENING PLANT USING A WRENCH. HAD REMOVED SEVERAL BOLTS AND FOUND ONE THAT WOULD NOT BREAK LOOSE. USED EXTRA FORCE AND LATER FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING ON FRAMEWORK AROUND CONE CRUSHER. HAD USED A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON AS A MARKER AND LAID DOWN BETWEEN FRAMEWORK HE WAS ON AND A SECOND FRAMWORK. AFTER WORKING FOR A WHILE WEN T TO WORK ON OTHER FRAME. HE STEPPED ACROST AND PUT FOOT ON ANGLE IRON WHICH CAUSED HIM TO FALL ABOUT 9 FEET TO MUDDY GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON SETTING UP PLANT. HE WAS WORKING UNDER A FRAMEWORK ABOUT FIVE FOOT HIGH AND STOOD UP AND HIT HEAD CAUSING AN ABRASION ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD.

ROCK WAS LODGED IN THE JAW AND EMPLOYEE ALONG WITH OTHERS WAS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK IT DOWN WITH A MAUL, ON ONE OF HIS SWINGS HE MISSED THE ROCK AND HIT HIMSELF IN THE LEFT LEG CAUSING BRUISING AND SWELLING BUT HE WAS BACK TO WORK AT THE NEXT WORK DAY.

A ROCK HAD LODGED IN JAW CRUSHER AND ALONG WITH 2 EMPLOYEES THE EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING SMALLER SHOT ROCK TO GET AT LODGED ROCK A ROCK ROLLED AND STRUCK LITTLE FINGER ON EMPLOYEES LEFT HAND CAUSIN G CUTS AND SWELLING AND HE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL TO SEE IF FINGER WAS BROKEN WHICH IT WAS NOT

EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING A WOODEN BLOCK WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE, HE PICKED UP HIS END BEFORE OTHER EMPLOYEE DID AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS ST5NDING ON CONEVEYOR BELT CHANGING GRIZZLE BARS IN A RIPRAP DEEDER.THE FOREMAN WAS SHOWING A NEW EMPLOYEE HOW THE LECTRIC CONTROLS WORKED FOR THE RIPRAP PLANT AND THOUGHT THAT PO POWER TO THE PL5NT WAS SHUT OFF &BUTTON WAS PUSHED STARTING CONVEYOR BELT UP.EMPLOYEE LOST BALANCE AND FELL ABOUT TEN FEET TO THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING OUT FROM UNDER CONVEYOR BELTS. A ROCK FELL APPROX. 1K FEET AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON TOE ON LEFT FOOT CAUSING A CONTUSION.

EMPLOYEE RUNS T2WER THAT RUNS CRUSHING EQUIPMENT. A ROCK LODGED IN THE JAW AND AFTER STOPPING JAW THE EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO MOVE SMALLER ROCKS OUT OF THE WAY SO HE COULD BREAK LODGED ROCK WIT H MAUL. HE CAU1HT LITTLE FINGER RIGHT HAND BETWEEN 2 ROCKS CAUSING A LACERATION AND FRACTURE OF THE FINGER.

A BELT HAD COME3OFF A CONVEYOR. EES PUT IT BACK ON. FOREMAN PASSED WORD THAT CONVEYOR WAS TO BE STARTED AGAIN. ONE EE KEEP HAND ON CONVEYOR BELT AFTER WARNING & WHEN BELT WAS STARTED HIS LEFT THUMB WAS CAUG2T BETWEEN ROLLER & BELT CAUSING MILD CONTUSION & ABRASION TO THE THUMB.

ROCK BECAME LOD1ED IN JAW AFTER PLANT WAS SHUT DOWN EMPL TOOK MAULS TO TRY AND BREAK UP ROCK.EMPL CLIMBING DOWN TO ROCK LOST FOOTING AND FELL SHORT DISTANCE ONTO BACKSIDE.WHILE FALLING LET GO OF MAUL HE CARR3ED AND IT HIT ON LITTLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND BREAKING FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO CHANGE A 36" BELT ON A CONVEYOR, BELT JOB WAS COMPLETED AND EMPLOYEE TOLD TO MOVE AWAY FROM BELT BEFORE IT WAS STARTED. HE FAILED TO MOVE AWAY AND LITTLE FINGER ON RIGH T HAND WAS PINCHED BETWEEN BELT AND ROLLER.

EMPLOYEE RUN THE TOWER AT OUR QUARRY CONTROLING THE PLANT OPERATION. A ROCK LODGED IN THE JAW AND EMPLOYEE WENT INTO HOPPER, AFTER SHUTING DOWN PLANT, TO BREAK IT LOOSE A ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIS HAND WHILE HE WAS WORKING. HE DID NOT WHERE THE ROCK HAD COME FROM.

EMP HAD GONE INTO CONTROL TOWER TO WARM UP WHEN HE WENT BACK OUT TO LEAVE THE RAILING ON ONE SIDE OF WALKWAY AROUND JAW GVE WAY AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND ABOUT 12 FT BELOW

EE WAS LIFTING A CAT 8D BATTERY WEIGHING APPROX.150# WITH THE AID OF ANOTHER EE FROM THE BACK OF A PICKUP TRUCK INTO AN ENDLOADER BUCKET. LIFTING THE BATTERY CAUSED BACK STRAIN.